New Mexico

Jack and I have been having a load of fun on the road. Yesterday we left Las Cruces and drove about an hour to the White Sands Missile Range Museum. We had to park Ruby outside the gate and walk into the base. On the way in, we had to show our ID's.

The museum is all outside, so it was good that the weather was great. I got a few pictures:






This one looks like a flying saucer, and it was flying over Roswell!



Here's a panorama that I put together using 5 shots:


These were shot inside a missile launcher:





After we left the Missile Museum, we visited the White Sands National Monument. Why is it called White Sands? Because of the snowy, bright-white, soft gypsum sand that drifts into massive dunes here! These dunes can move up to 30 feet a year, necessitating plows to keep the roads passable. Here are some photos that I took there:





























We spent last night at the Alamogordo Community RV park. It was a good park, clean, and quiet. We walked from there a mile up the road to Golden Corral, where we feasted. We were exhausted, collapsing into bed before 10.

This morning, we walked to Denny's for their breakfast. Then we went to Lowe's and Home Depot, there in Alamogordo, looking for a turnoff for the hand-held shower in the RV. We have not yet showered in the rig, since the campground showers have been fine.

On up the road, we stopped at the Pistachio Tree Ranch, where we got some treats and took these photos:





Jack drove for a bit:

Next, about 30 miles from there, we visited the Three Rivers Petroglyph Site, a BLM-managed park containing over 20,000 of these rock pictures. I will have a collection of the photos from there for you tomorrow!